Yup, it's worse than last year. But not that much worse.
Almost half of withdrawals were mid-stage abandonments.
The abandonments were mostly in the first and second week
All the "over the time limit" exclusions were in week 1 and week 2.
DNSes were more evenly spread:
Week 1 was evenly split between abandons and OTLs
Week 2 was mostly abandonments:
By week 3, most withdrawals were DNSes, probably as the damage caught up to people.
The by-stage number view of withdrawals shows how damaging stages 9 and 11 were, even if they no longer make up more than half of all withdrawals.
Arkea-Samsic were the worst hit team, but only 4 teams didn't lose any team members. Then again, those teams include UAE Emirates, who had the winner and Deceuninck – Quick-Step, who held the green jersey (sometimes literally up those mountains). I think keeping as many team members in the race is an advantage.
A different view of the same data
Kaplan-Meier diagram split by teams
It shows it was that middle week that did for people.
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